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After travelling abroad on a scholarship to Japan, I realized that the world is much bigger than I ever thought. It's one thing to learn about a country in school but it’s something completely different to actually travel and immerse yourself in a different culture. Still,even though I know that the world has so much to offer, I would trade it all just to go to my grandma’s house. It’s easy to start taking a privilege for granted when you start mistaking it for a right. Growing up as a DACA (Deferred Action for Child Arrivals) student , I never had that luxury of being able to visit my family in Mexico. They couldn't come to me because the legal process was extremely selective and expensive for us and I couldn't go to them because

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